Mumps Testing at the University of Nebraska

Filed in archive Diagnostics , Diagnostics on April 20, 2006

Because of the recent outbreak of mumps in Nebraska, representatives from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will be conducting mumps testing the University of Nebraska, Kearney Campus on Thursday and Friday from nine to four at the Health and Sports Center.

UNK director of counseling and health care LeAnn Obrecht said there are no known cases of mumps at UNK. She says the situation presents an opportunity to test the level of vaccine-induced immunity in students in a university setting.

Mumps is a contagious viral infection of the salivary glands which has affected more than 800 patients in Iowa alone. For more information about mumps, visit the Nebraska medical Center primer, Mumps Outbreak: Everything You Need to Know or the CDC webpage on mumps.

[Photo: CDC via NewsNetNebraska]

About the author: Ruth Schaffer is a Microbiologist by training and currently authors the Allergy and Biotechnology weblogs for Creative Weblogging. She is a mother to a bi-racial, Bilingual, precocious 3-yr old.